To not want to be rushed out of a car park?

[MsMarvel]

Travel around for work, so regularly use public car parks to then work at client sites (hotels, bars etc) always arrive early so never have any issue getting spaces in busy car parks.

Because i work in a public area at a client site, when i get back to my car like to grab my lunch quickly and make some phonecalls before heading home (todays journey is a 2 hour drive home)

Im fed up of people trying to find spaces in car parks seeing me going into my car, amd sitting behind me waiting for me to leave! I normally end up feeling rushed and just leave, but today i decided to sit and eat the steak bake i bought on the way to the car. Woman sits behind me for like 5 mins, then goes past slowly peering into my car giving me proper evils. Should add, engine not on, so not sitting with idling engine.

Aibu to take some time before leaving a parking space??

@CuriousaboutSamphire, apologies I think I am the miscreant!
Although hang on, are we allowed to use miscreant? Or even apologies? Are they too long and we are just trying to appear intelligent?

OK then. Moving for people when I don't need a space is entitled.

What makes you entitled, Thestrangestthing, is the corollary to that - i.e. your implied contention that anyone having lunch in their car when it is you that is looking for a space must move out.

@Apolloanddaphne

What if someone got a greggs steak bake and ate it outside (or inside) the shop, you STILL wouldn't get the space until they had finished and were ready to go.

Yep this. Excellent point! I wonder if thestrangestthing has an answer for THAT?!

@Thestrangestthing

Are you OK? Serious question by the way.

You seem to keep switching from being quite angry and upset, to LOL-ing and accusing people of having 'poor comprehension and reading skills' when they give an answer you don't like.

It's been a while since I have seen somebody so utterly obsessed with a thread, not just invested in it, but literally obsessed.

@MsMarvel YANBU.

I would not move out of my parking space, whether it was a free one or a 'paid-for' one, until I was ready. And anyone staring, glaring, or huffing and puffing, can fuck right off.

That said, on most occasions, I would say 'sorry I am not leaving for a while' so the person can move on. But occasionally I like to just sit there and make them wait, just for sheer devilment. Maybe one day thestrangestthing will be the person huffing and puffing and waiting, and I will tootle around, faffing and fussing and eating my crisps, and then fuck off back into the shop, leaving her sitting there red-faced and angry. Just for shits and giggles ya know.

*disclaimer I rarely carry out such a heinous act, but I do sit in my car and eat a pack of wotsits and a can of diet coke sometimes if I am hungry and aren't going home for a couple of hours... I rarely hog the car parking space for more than an extra 4 or 5 minutes though!

Is that OK with you strangestthings!?

@Thestrangestthing

I'm sure there is a name for people who try to use unnecessarily "big" words in an attempt to sound more intelligent.

Careful now, your low self-esteem and insecurities are showing real bad now!

Your username sure as hell suits you by the way!

@CuriousaboutSamphire

I will see if I can spot the miscreant!

Careful, thestrangestthing will be blowing a gasket with you using a 'big word' like that!

But if @Msmarvel was eating a steak bake in the passenger seat then nobody would be any the wiser.

YouNeedIceForThat

Fuck me, @Oulu, don’t use the word corollary- that’s 9 letters long!

Low self esteem 😂

I do understand them, just unnecessary, again it's too try hard.

Someone says they would move out of a space they didn't need to let someone else have it, and they think it would be nice if others did the same, and everyone pounces. Talk about fucking entitled.

But, once again, that is because you are defining "need" on your own weird terms - i.e. that you are only allowed to leave a car in a car park if you are not in it. You're ignoring all the inconvenient and entirely valid points people have made about the sheer illogicality of this.
Coming back and swearing at posters because of your inability to answer those points still doesn't make you right.

Oops!

I'll join Ice on the naughty step

I've just found a lovely spot to park in. It's a bit busy, but that's normal at this time of day. Both cars to the side of me have lunch eaters in them. Both have their door open (a dead give away). One closed his door whilst I parked and has now opened it again. He watched me put the tail gate lock on for the dog and smiled as I walked away. I walked round a corner before I started typing, didn't want to miss reporting on any snarky looks!

Such is the excitement of my usual round!

Although dyslexia does slow me down at times, it's a bitch.

Ffs where did I say this? I said things like eating lunch or reading their phone. Get a grip.

Yesterday afternoon. Quote:

And I've sat and cried in a car park more than once. Is that OK? Or would you prefer I drove off straight away in that scenario?

(Strangestthings): Yes

I do understand them, just unnecessary, again it's too try hard Really? Just read like everyday words to me!

Inverse snobbery, maybe?

Read you all soon. About to use phone for work purposes!

*chemenger
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That's brilliant!!!
Sit in the passenger seat I will remember that 😂

On another note, if you are using a supermarket car park for free would you buy something in there.

I always do as I wonder if you have to prove you are a customer itms

I do not expect anyone to move for me, I just think it would be considerate, if they have been and done what they have to do and then returned to their car that they then move out the space to let someone waiting for a space have it.

But OP hadn't done everything she needed to do. She needed to have lunch and make phone calls. So no need to move out, obviously.

I'm somewhere with a number of two hour parking spaces. I could have gone and moved my car half an hour ago, but I've stayed to eat my M&S sandwich and mess around on here. For all I know, the local populace are circulating the parking areas like vultures/ missing appointments/ starving to death for lack of a parking space. However, happily I'm obviously in the clear with StrangestThing because I'm not actually sitting in my car.

Aw God, I feel like I've been smashing my head against a wall. My inbox is packed with all your @ ing 😂 have fun still disgusting me when I'm gone, I know you will be. My mind is numb with the repition and my eyes are sore from all the rolling to the back of my head they have been doing.

Try and be more considerate in your everyday lives, it would be better for everyone.

Peace and love man, peace and love ✌️

if you are using a supermarket car park for free would you buy something in there. Usually I do, either the lunch I eat or whatever shopping I need for home. But not always. 5 years is selfish parking and I've never been questioned. Though I do always park according to the posted T+ C's.

My logic is that I am a customer, maybe less so that day. But as I don't have a preferred supermarket I am a customer of all of them at some time or other.

Sorry. I know I said I'm working, but I am waiting for an access code

I believe that Thestrangestthing is just a tourist visiting the rest of us here in the real world.

Nice

Good one Penners99 ✋